Shining on that part, then another more,
Then there most darken'd, where moft light before;
Now all night fhining, now a piece and then,
Obferves the day, and in her course again;
Sometime to fouth, then northward the doth stir,
Him so amazing, he fuppofed her
Vain and inconftant, now herself t' attire,
And help her beauties with her brother's fire,
When most of all accomplish'd is her face,
A fudden darkness doth her quite difgrace.
For that the earth, by nature cold and dry,
By the much groseness and obscurity,
Whofe globe exceeds her compass being fixt,
Her (d) furface and her brother's beams betwixt:
Within whofe fhadow when she haps to fall,
Forceth her darkness to be general;
That he refolv'd fhe ever would be strange :
Yet marking well he found upon her change,
If that her brow with bloody red were stain'd,
Tempests soon after; and if black, it rain'd:
By his obfervance that he well difcern'd,
That from her courfe things greater might be
learn'd.
Whilft that his brain he bufied yet doth keep,
Now from the spleen the melancholy deep
Pierceth the veins, and like a raging flood,
Rudely itself extending through the blood,
Appalls the spirits, (e) denying their defence
Unto the organs, when as every sense
Ceafeth the office, then the labouring mind,
Strongest in that which all the powers doth bind,
Strives to high knowledge, being in this plight,
Now the fun's fifter, mistress of the night,
His fad defires long languifhing to cheer,
Thus at the last on Latmus doth appear,
Her brother's beams enforc'd to lay aside.
Herself for his fake seeming to divide.
For had the come apparell'd in her light,
Then should the fwain have perifh'd in her fight.
Upon a bull (ƒ) as white as milk the rode,
Which like a huntress bravely fhe bestrode,
Her brow with beauty gloriously replete,
Her count'nance lovely with a fwelling teat;
Gracing her broad breast curiously enchas'd,
With branched veins all bared to the wait.
Over the fame the wore a vapour thin,
Thorough the which her clear and dainty skin
To the beholder amiably did show,
Like damask roses lightly clad in fnow.
Her bow and quiver at her back behind,
That eas'ly moving with the wanton wind,
Made a foft rustling, fuch as you do hear
Amongst the reeds fome gliding river near,
When the fierce Boreas thorough them doth ride,
Against whofe rage the hollow canes do chide;
Which breath her mantle (g) amorously did fwell,
From her strait shoulders carelessly that fell.
Now here, now there, now up and down that flew,
Of fundry colours, wherein you might view
(d) Eclip. Lunae.
(e) The depth of contemplation.
(f) The exaltation of the Moon in Taurus, therefore not improperly faid to ride upon a bull.
(g) In this fuppofed mantle is deferibed the furface of a. fea and land in landfkip.
A fea, that somewhat straitned by the land,
Two furious tides raise their ambitious hand,
One 'gainst the other, warring in their pride,
Like two fond worldlings that themselves divide
For fome flight trifle, oppofite in all,
Till both together ruined, they fall,
Some coming in, fome out again doth go,
And the fame way, and the fame wind doth blow,
Both fails their course each labouring to prefer,
By th' hand of either's helpful mariner :
Outrageous tempeft, fhipwrecks overspread
All the rude Neptune, whilft that pale-fac'd dread
Seizeth the ship-boy, that his ftrength doth put
The anchor'd cable prefently to cut.
All above board, the sturdy Eolus casts
Into the wide feas, whilft on planks and mafts
Some 'fay to fwim; and there you might behold,
Whilft the rude waters enviously did fcold,
Others upon a promontory high,
Thrusting his blue top through the bluer sky,
Looking upon those loft upon the feas;
Like worldly rich men that do fit at ease,
Whilft in this vain world others live in ftrife,
Warring with forrow every where fo rife ;
And oft amongst the monsters of the main,
Their horrid foreheads through the billows ftrain,
Into the vast air driving on their breafts
The troubled water, that fo ill digefts
Their fway, that it them enviously affails,
Hanging with white jaws on their marble scales;
And in another inland part again,
Where fprings, lakes, rivers, marishes and fen,
Wherein all kinds of water-fowl did won,
Each in their colours excellently done,
The greedy fea-maw fishing for the fry;
The hungry fhell-fowl, from whose rape doth fly
Th' unnumber'd fholes; the mallard there did
The teale and morecoot raking in the weed;
And in a creek where waters leaft did ftir,
Set from the reft the nimble divedopper,
That comes and goes fo quickly and so oft,
As feems at once both under and aloft :
The jealous fwan, there swimming in his pride,
With his arch'd breaft the waters did divide,
His faily wings him forward ftrongly pushing,
Against the billows with fuch fury rushing,
As from the fame, a foam fo white arofe,
As feem'd to mock the breast that them oppose:
And here and there the wand'ring eye to feed,
Of scatter'd tufts of bulrushes and reed, [Spray,
Segges, long-leav'd willow, on whofe bending
The py'd king's-fifher, having got his prey,
Sate with the fmall breath of the water fhaken,
'Till he devour'd the fish that he had taken.
The long-neck'd hern, there watching by the brim,
And in a gutter near again to him
The bidling fnite, the plover on the moor,
The curlew, fcratching in the oufe and ore :
And there a fowler fet his lime and gin,
Watching the birds unto the fame to win;
Sees in a boat a fisher near at hand,
Tugging his net full laden to the land,
Keep off the fowl, whereat the other's blood
Cha'd; from the place where fecretly he stood
Makes figns, and clofely beck'neth him away,
Shaketh his hand, as threat'ning if he stay,
In the fame ftained with fuch natural grace,
That rage was lively pictured in his face :
Whilft that the other eagerly that wrought,
Having his fenfe ftill fettled on his draught
More than before, beats, plunges, hales the cord,
Nor but one look, the other can afford.
Bufkins fhe wore, which of the fea did bear
The pale green colour, which like waved were
To that vaft Neptune, of two colours mixt,
Yet none could tell the difference was betwixt,
With rocks of cryftal lively that were fet,
Covering whofe feet with many a curious fret,
Were groves of coral, which not feeling weather,
Their limber branches were fo lp'd together,
As one enamour'd had of other been,
Jealous the air t' have intercourfe between :
'Mongst which clear (b)a mber jellied feem'd tobe,
Through whofe transparence you might easily fee
The beds of (i) pearl whereon the gum did fleep,
Cockles, broad scallops, and their kind that keep
The precious feed which of the waters come,
Some yet but thriving, when as other fome,
More than the reft that ftrangely feem to well,
With the dear fruit that grew within the fhell;
Others again wide open there did yawn,
And on the gravel fpew'd their orient spawn:
That he became amazed at her fight,
Even as a man is troubled at the light
Newly awaked, and the white and red,
With his eyes twinkling, gathered and fled:
Like as a mirror to the fun oppos'd
Within the margin equally enclos'd,
That being moved, as the hand directs,
It at one inftant taketh and reflects:
For the affection by the violent heat,
Forming it, paffion taketh up the feat
In the full heart, whereby the joy or fear,
That it receives either by th' eye or ear,
Still as the object altereth the mood,
Either attract, or forceth from the blood:
That from the chief part violently fent,
In either kind thereby is vehement.
Whilft the fad fhepherd in this woful plight
Perplex'd; the goddefs with a longing fight
Him now beheld; for worshipped by men,
The heavenly powers fo likewife love again
To fhew themselves, and make their glories known:
And one day marking when he was alone,
Unto him coming, mildly him befpake'
Quoth fhe, Know, fhepherd, only for thy fake.
I first chofe Latmus, as the only place
Of my abode, and have refus'd to grace
My Menalus, well known in every coast,
To be the mount that once I loved moft:
And fince alone of wretched mortals, thou
Haft labour'd (k) firft my wand'ring course to
know;
To times fucceeding thou alone fhalt be,
By whom my motion shall be taught, quoth fhe,
(b) Amber found in the Liguftic deeps. (i) Pearls bred in thells.
Endymion firft found out the courfe of the moon.
For thofe first fimple that my face did mark,
In the full brightness fuddenly made dark,
Ere knowledge did the cause thereof difclofe,
To be enchanted long did me fuppofe :
With founding brass and all the while did ply,
The incantation thereby to untye,
But to our purpose, when our mother went,
The bright Latona, (7) (and her womb diftent)
With the great burden that by Jove (m) she bare,
Me and my brother, the great thunderer's care;
Whom floating Delos wand'ring in the main,
From jealous Juno hardly could contain :
Then much diftrefs'd, and in a hard eftate,
Caus, fair daughter by our stepdame's hate,
Betwixt a laurel and an olive-tree,
Into the world did bring the fun and me.
When I was born (as I have heard her fay)
Nature alone did reft her on that day:
In Jove's high house the gods affembled all,
To whom he held a fumptuous feftival;
The well wherein my mother bath'd me first,
Hath that high virtue, that he fhall not thirst,
Thereof that drinks, and hath the pain appeas'd
Of th' inward griev'd, and outwardly difeas'd:
And being young, the gods that haunt the deep,
Stealing to kifs me foftly laid to fleep;
And having felt the sweetness of my breath,
Miffing me, mourn'd, and languifhed to death.
I am the rectrefs of this globe below,
And with my courfe the fea (n) doth ebb and flow,
When from aloft my beams I oblique caft,
Straitways it ebbs, and floweth then as faft;
Downward again my motion when I make,
Twice doth it fwell, twice every day doth flake;
Sooner or later shifting of the tide
As far or near my wand'ring course doth guide.
That kindly moisture that doth life maintain,
In every creature proves how I do reign
In fluxive humour, which is ever found,
As I do wane or wax up to my round;
Those fruitful trees of victory and peace,
The palm and olive, ftill with my increase.
Shoot forth new branches; and to tell my power,
As my great brother, fo have I a (o) flower
To me peculiar, that doth ope and clofe,
When as I rife, and when I me repofe.
No lefs than thefe that green and living be,
The precious gems do fympathize with me:
As most that (p) stone that doth the name derive
From me, with me that leffeneth or doth thrive,
Darkneth and fhineth, as I do, her queen.
And as in thefe, in beafts my power is feen
As he whofe grim face all the leffer fears,
The cruel panther, on his fhoulder bears
A fpot that daily changeth as I do.
And as that creature me affecteth too,
(1) Tibul. Elegia 8. Juven. Satyr. 6. Plutar. vi. Aemi. (m) Apollo and Phoebe, teigned to be the twins of Jupiter and Latona. Vide Ovid. 1. 6. Metam. & Plin. 1. 27. C. 44.
(n) Secundum motum diurnum fingulis diebus bis fluens, bis refluens.
(0) Selenetropiuin, the flower of the moon. ) The Selenite, of siz
It whofe deep craft fearee any creature can,
Seeming with reason to divide with man,
The nimble (g) Babion mourning all the time,
Nor eats betwixt my waning and my prime.
The spotted cat, whose sharp and fubtil fight
Pierceth the vapour of the blackest night,
My want and fulness in her eye doth find,
So great am I and powerful in that kind.
As thofe great burghers of the forest wild,
The hart, the goat, and (r) he that flew the child
Of wanton Mirrah, in their strength do know
The due obfervance nature doth me owe.
And if thou think me heavenly not to be,
That in my face thou often feem' to fee
A paleness, where thofe other in the sky
Appear fo purely glorious in thine eye:
Thofe (a) freckles thou supposest me disgrace,
Are thofe pure parts that in my lovely face,
By their fo much tenuity do flight,
My brother's beams affifting me with light,
And keep that clearness as doth me behove,
Of that pure heaven me set wherein to move.
My leaf spot feen unto the earth so near,
Wherefore that (6) compass that doth oft appear
About my body, is the dampy mist,
From earth arifing, ftriving to refift
The rays my full orb plenteoufly projects
On the grofs cloud, whofe thickness it reflects,
And mine own light about myself doth fling
In equal parts, in fashion of a ring;
For near❜ft to mortals though my state I keep,
Yet not the colour of the troubled deep,
Thofe fpots fuppofed, nor the fogs that rife
From the dull earth, me any whit agrife;
Whofe perfect beauty no way can endure,
But what like me is excellently pure;
For moift and cold although I do respire,
Yet in myself had I not (c) genuine fire,
When the grofs earth divided hath the space
Betwixt the full orb and my brother's face,
Though I confefs much leffen'd be my light,
I should be taken utterly from fight:
And for I fo irregularly go,
Therein wife nature most of all doth fhew
Her fearchlefs judgment: for did I in all
Keep on in that way, which star-gazers call
The (d) line ecliptic, as my glorious brother"
Doth in his course, one oppofite to other;
Twice every month, th' eclipfes of our light
Poor mortals should prodigiously affright;
Yet by proportion certainly I move,
In rule of number, and the most I love
That which you call full, that most perfect feven
Of three (e) and four made, which for odd and even
Are male and female, which by mixture frame,
It moft mysterious, that as mine I claim;
Quarter'd thereby, first of which seven my prime,
The second seven accomplisheth the time
(q) Cinophal the Babion, or Baboon.
(r) Adonis flain by a boar.
(4) Partes Lunae rariores & proinde minus lucidae.
(b) The cause of that circle which the philofophers call Halo, which we often see about the moon.
(c) Luna lumen habet congenitum.
(d) The line fuppofed to divide the zodiac.
(e) Numerus impar mea par foemina.
Unto my fulness, in the third I
range
Lefs'ning again, the fourth then to my change:
To which four fevens the eight and (ƒ) twenty
Through the bright circle of the zodiac
In which I pafs, whofe (g) quarters do appear
As the four feafons of my brother's year.
First in my birth am moisten'd as his spring;
Hot as the fummer, he illumining
My orb, the fecond; my third quarter dry,
As is his autumn; when from him I fly,
Depriv'd his bright beams, and as waxing old,
Laftly, my wane is as his winter cold.'
Whereat the paus'd; who all the while fhe fpake,
The bustling winds their murmur often brake;
And being filent feemed yet to stay,
To liften if the had ought elfe to lay. [thought,
When now the while much troubled was his
And her fair speech fo craftily had caught
Him, that the fpirits foon fhaking off the load
Of the grofs flesh, and hating her abode;
Being thoroughly heated in these amorous fires,
Wholly tranfported with the dear defires
Of her embraces: for the living foul,
Being individual, uniform and whole,
By her unwearied faculties doth find
That which the flesh of duller earth by kind
Not apprehends, and by her function makes
Good her own ftate; Endymion now forfakes
All the delights that shepherds do prefer,
And fets his mind fo gen'rally on her,
That all neglected to the graves and springs,
He follows Phoebe, that him fafely brings
(As their great queen) unto the nymphish bowers,
Wherein clear rivers beautified with flowers,
The filver (6) Naides bathe them in the brack.
Sometime with her the fea-horfe he doth back,
Amongst the blue (i) Nereides; and when
Weary of waters, goddess like again,
She the high mountains actively allays,
And there amongst the light (4) Oriades,
That ride the fwift roes, Phebe doth refort;
Sometime amongst those that with them comport,
The (1) Hamadriades, doth the woods frequent;
And there fhe ftays not; but incontinent,
Calls down the Dragons that her chariot draw,
And with Endymion pleafed that she saw,
Mounteth thereon, in twinkling of an eye,
Stripping the winds, beholding from the sky
The earth in roundness of a perfect ball,
Which as a point but of this mighty all,
Wife nature fix'd, that permanent doth stay,
Whereas the spheres by a diurnal sway
Of the firft Mover carried are about.
And how the feveral elements throughout,
Strongly enfolded, and the vast air spread
In fundry regions, in the which are bred
Thofe ftrange impreffions often that appear
To fearful mortals, and the causes there,
(ƒ) The month of the year, of the moon.
(g) The four quarters of the month refemble the four feafons of the year. Macro.
(b) The nymphs of the waters. (1) Nymphs of the fea.
(Nymphs of the mountains. (4) Nymphs of the woods.
And light'ned by her piercing beams, he fees
The powerful Planets, how in their degrees,
In their due feasons they do fall and rife:
And how the Signs (m) in their triplicities
Be fympathifing in their trine consents,
With whofe inferior forming elements,
From which our bodies the complexions take,
Natures and number: ftrongly and do make
Our difpofitions like them, and on earth
The power the heavens have over mortal birth,
That their effects which men call fortune, are
As is that good or inaufpicious star,
Which at the frail nativity doth reign.
Yet here her love could Phoebe not contain,
And knowledge him fo ftrongly doth inspire,
That in most plenty, more he doth defire;
Railing him up to thofe excelling fights,
The glorious heaven, where all the fixed lights,
Whofe images fuppos'd to be therein,
Are fram'd of stars, whofe names did first begin
By thofe wife ancients, not to stellify
The first world's heroes only, but imply
To teach their courfes, for diftinguished
In Conftellations, a delight first bred
In flothful mar, into the fame to look,
That from those figures nomination took,
Which they resembled her on earth below,
And the bright Phoebe fubtilly doth know
The heavenly motions high her orb above,
As well as thofe that under her do move.
For with long titles do we her invest,
So these great three most powerful of the rest,
Phoebe, Diana, Hecate, do tell,
Her fovereignty in heaven, in earth and hell:
And wife Apollo, that doth likewise fend
Her his pure beams, with them doth likewife fend
His wond'rous knowledge, for that god moft bright,
King of the Planets, (n) fountain of the light:
That feeth all things, will have her to fee,
So far as where the facred angels be.
Those hierarchies that Jove's great will supply,
Whofe orders formed in triplicity,
Holding their places by the treble trine,
Make up that holy (a) theologic nine:
(p) Thrones, Cherubin, and Seraphin that rife,
As the first three; when Principalities,
(m) The Signs in their triplicities fympathife with the elements.
(n) Sol, fons lucis.
(0) Nine the mott holy number.
The nine orders of the angels.
With Dominations, Poteftates are plac'd
The second, and the Ephionian last,
Which Virtues, Angels, and Archangels be.
Thus yonder Man that in the Moon you fee,
Rapt up from Latmus, thus fhe doth prefer,
And goes about continually with her:
Over the world that every month doth look,
And in the fame there's fcarce that fecret nook
That he furveys not, and the places hidden
Whence fimple truth and candle-light forbidden
Dare not approach, he peepeth with his light;
Whereas fufpicious policy by night
Confults with Murder, Bafenefs at their hand,
Armed to act whatever they command,
With guilty confcience and intent fo foul,
That oft they start at whooping of an owl,
And flily peering at a little pore,
See one fometimes content to keep the door;
One would not think the bawd that did not know,
Such a brave body could defcend so low.
And the base churl, the fun that dare not trust,
With his old gold, yet smelling it doth ruft,
Lays it abroad, but locks himself within
Three doubled locks, or ere he dare begin
To ope his bags, and being sure of all;
Elfe, yet therewith dare fcarcely trust the wall:
And with a candle in a filthy stick,
The grease not fully covering the wick,
Pores o'er his bafe god, forth a flame that fries,
Almost as dim as his foul bleared eyes:
Yet like to a great murderer, that gave
Some flight reward unto fome bloody knave,
To kill, the fecond fecretly doth flay,
Fearing left he the former should betray:
He the poor candle murd'reth ere burnt out,
Because that he the fecrecy doth doubt;
And oftentimes the Mooned Man outfpics
The eve-dropper, and circumspectly eyes
The thief and lover, 'fpecially which two
With night and darkness have the most to do.
And not long fince, befides this, did behold
Some of you here, when you should 'tend your
fold,
A nights were wenching: thus he me doth tell.
With that, they all in fuch a laughter fell.
That the field rang: when from a village near
The watchful Cock crew, and with notes full
The early Lark soon summoned the day, When they departed every one their way.
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